Posts tagged #pkm

Obsidian's search operators are precise, but they only find notes when you remember the words you used. Here's what local embedding plugins add, where they quietly fail, and why hybrid ranking is the honest answer.

Most people patch around a missing Obsidian feature with a Templater script and a CSS snippet. The plugin API is often the shorter path, and the surface area you actually need is tiny.

Workspaces is a core Obsidian plugin that saves your entire pane layout under a name and restores it in one command. Here's how to design layouts worth saving, and the gotcha that trips everyone up.

Splitting your Obsidian vault feels like tidying up, but a vault boundary is a hard wall your search, links, and queries cannot cross. Here is what you actually give up, and when it is worth it.

Obsidian's core Search has a real query language hiding behind the search box. Here's how file, path, line, block, section, task, and property operators replace half the plugins people install to find things.

Whole-note embeds are the easy part. Block references are where transclusion in Obsidian actually pays off, and where one misplaced caret silently breaks everything.

Dataview code blocks give you tables. Inline queries give you a single live value in the middle of a sentence, which turns out to be the feature you reach for far more often.

Obsidian's 2026 Community directory added automated scans and safety scorecards for every plugin version. Here's what that changes, and how to actually audit the plugins already sitting in your vault.

The official Obsidian Web Clipper turns any web page into a clean, templated vault note. Here's how its templates, variables, and filters actually work.